1368
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1368 (MCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1368th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 368th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 14th century, and the 9th year of the 1360s decade. As of the start of 1368, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 13th century – 14th century – 15th century |
| Decades: | 1330s 1340s 1350s – 1360s – 1370s 1380s 1390s |
| Years: | 1365 1366 1367 – 1368 – 1369 1370 1371 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1368 MCCCLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2121 |
| Armenian calendar | 817 ԹՎ ՊԺԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6118 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1289–1290 |
| Bengali calendar | 775 |
| Berber calendar | 2318 |
| English Regnal year | 41 Edw. 3 – 42 Edw. 3 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1912 |
| Burmese calendar | 730 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6876–6877 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4064 or 4004 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4065 or 4005 |
| Coptic calendar | 1084–1085 |
| Discordian calendar | 2534 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1360–1361 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5128–5129 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1424–1425 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1289–1290 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4468–4469 |
| Holocene calendar | 11368 |
| Igbo calendar | 368–369 |
| Iranian calendar | 746–747 |
| Islamic calendar | 769–770 |
| Japanese calendar | Jōji 7 / Ōan 1 (応安元年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1281–1282 |
| Julian calendar | 1368 MCCCLXVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3701 |
| Minguo calendar | 544 before ROC 民前544年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −100 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1910–1911 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1494 or 1113 or 341 — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1495 or 1114 or 342 |
Events change
- Timur ascends throne of Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan)..
- Hongwu (also known as Zhu Yuanzhang) establishes the Ming Dynasty in China after the disintegration the Mongol Yuan Dynasty.
- Work begins on the current Great Wall of China.
- Emperor Chōkei accedes to the throne of Japan
- Ramesuan succeeds Ramathibodi I as ruler of Ayutthaya (now southern Thailand).
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich becomes the sole ruler of Tver (now in eastern Russia) after the death of co-ruler and rival Mikhailovich of Kashin.
- Moscow attacks Tver. Tver makes a counter-attack with the aid of Lithuania and the Blue Horde.
- The King of Norway sends the last Royal Ship from Norway to the Greenland Eastern Settlement. This event is part of both the Norse colonization of the Americas and of the History of Greenland.
Births change
- February 14 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1437)
- December 3 – King Charles VI of France (died 1422)
- Pope Martin V (died 1431)
- Thomas Occleve, English poet (died 1450)
- Robert Merchant, French painter (Born June)
Deaths change
- October 7 – Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (born 1338)
- Andrea Orcagna, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect
- Ibn-i-Yamin the 'Persian Puritan', poet
- Ramathibodi I, ruler of Ayutthaya